Samsung Exynos 990 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2600MHz)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 990 +21%

707030

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 990

842

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 990 +25%

2672

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 990 +117%

1126

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Samsung Exynos 990

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2730 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

9 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP11

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

800 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

11

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

16

Max size

8

1.126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7350 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9830

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 990

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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